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Topic: Recognize this?
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OPOS
Member Posts: 200
From: Inverness, FL
Registered: Apr 2000
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posted 04-08-2006 06:44 PM
   
I found this at a junkyard along side the road between Inverness and Floral City FL- Obviously caught my eye! The junk yard owner knew nothing about it, said he had another "out back". I assume it is a warhead, but what would have flown this? When is it from? Anyone?
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KC Stoever
Member Posts: 1012
From: Denver, CO USA
Registered: Oct 2002
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posted 04-08-2006 08:21 PM
Good lord.And good luck with an i.d. |
dtemple
Member Posts: 729
From: Longview, Texas, USA
Registered: Apr 2000
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posted 04-09-2006 02:13 AM
Could it be part of a Minuteman? |
spaced out
Member Posts: 3110
From: Paris, France
Registered: Aug 2003
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posted 04-09-2006 02:33 AM
Minuteman I maybe? |
Duke Of URL
Member Posts: 1316
From: Syracuse, NY
Registered: Jan 2005
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posted 04-09-2006 04:38 AM
Put it on eBay![This message has been edited by Duke Of URL (edited April 09, 2006).] |
OPOS
Member Posts: 200
From: Inverness, FL
Registered: Apr 2000
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posted 04-09-2006 07:40 AM
Thats the funny part. The photos don't show it well but this thing practically sticks out onto route 41. The first thing the guy says is that everyone wants to buy them but his father doesn't want to sell them. He even has an original trailer "out back" (I did not see this). All he could tell me was he assumed it came from Canaveral and that he thought the actual warhead was taken out (!)I could have displayed this in my yard up in Canandaigua, but not down here! Tom Edmonds [This message has been edited by OPOS (edited April 09, 2006).] |
Ken Havekotte
Member Posts: 2912
From: Merritt Island, Florida, Brevard
Registered: Mar 2001
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posted 04-09-2006 12:20 PM
Most interesting, huh, but definitely not from a warhead/reentry section of the Air Force's Minuteman. The ICBM wasn't this thick in diameter as the picture depicts and not quite the same reentry structure from both Minuteman I & II versions. I first thought it may be the reentry section of the Navy's old Polaris (A-1), but that doesn't seem to match up either. Certainly not the upper stages of a Juno II vehicle, another quick guess when I first saw this post--therefore, what can it be? Perhaps a dummy or mockup reentry model or upper stage configuration of somekind as there were many in use from the Cape during the 1950s and 60s here. I wish we could see more pictures from "inside" the base of the vehicle as that would surely tell us more.
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OPOS
Member Posts: 200
From: Inverness, FL
Registered: Apr 2000
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posted 04-09-2006 09:35 PM
No problem, Ken. Although i don't think I can get inside, if there are more specific outside areas that you need to see photographed, it will not be a hard job. Just let me know if there are "clue" areas you'd like to see closer.Thanks! Tom Edmonds |
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